In Armenia, a group of 12 candidate judges enhanced their knowledge on substantive and procedural grounds for conditional non-enforcement of the sentence, early conditional release, as well on the pre-release reports submitted by the Probation Service. Moreover, as part of the training, the candidate judges got acquainted with the role and aim of probation in general.

This training also focused on opportunities for cooperation with the Probation Service, and on particularities of the probation work, thus contributing to the improvement of the functioning of Probation Service in Armenia.

This training took place on 25 October 2021 and it was the first in a series of training sessions for future judges, with the view of further integrating the training curricula within the curricula of the Academy of Justice of Armenia. The training was organised in close cooperation with the Academy of Justice of Armenia based on the training course developed earlier by the Council of Europe

The activity was organized in the framework of the project “Support the scaling-up of the probation service in Armenia” implemented by the Council of Europe and financed through the Council of Europe’s Action Plan for Armenia 2019-2022.